If you asked 100 random unknown what God look like , you ’d probably get around 100 different reception . But if you specifically asked American Christians , and then aggregated their answers , you ’d apparently end up with a face that ’s so close to Tesla father andaspiring counterspy manElon Musk it ’s frankly bizarre .
This puzzling tidings comes from a paperrecently publishedby PLoS ONE . To study the biases of believers , psychologist at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill testify 511 American Christians pairs of faces and need them which one wait more like God . Each player was read 300 nerve pairs , generated by cover random noise on a base face represent a statistically median American .
The researchers then compiled the holiest figure , resulting in a face that was pronounce by 400 resume participants as “ more masculine , Caucasoid , attractive , well-informed , and loving ” than God ’s “ anti - face , ” an aggregate of the word-painting the sample of Christians did not select . It also happened to seem remarkably like Elon Musk — whom , to be clear , the newspaper does n’t cite by name at any detail , but , like , c’m on .
The survey found conservatives imagined God as a “ more masculine , honest-to-goodness , more powerful , and wealthier ” Elon Musk , while liberals envisioned a “ more African American and more loving ” Elon Musk . Older participants also saw an old Elon Musk , and player who self - reported as attractive saw a spicy Elon Musk , but man and women see God as an evenly male Elon Musk .
The researchers reason that their sample appeared “ to have static representation of God ’s face that included differentiable strong-arm features ( e.g. masculinity , youthfulness , and Whiteness ) and psychological characteristic ( for instance lovingness ) ” and that their perception reflected “ their political ideologies and their own personal appearance . ”
“ People ’s tendency to conceive in a God that take care like them is consistent with an egoistical diagonal , ” say senior author Kurt Grayin a mechanical press release . “ People often contrive their feeling and traits onto others , and our study shows that God ’s appearing is no unlike — people believe in a God who not only think like them , but also looks like them . ”
A version of them , it seems , who happen to date Grimes , love Rick and Morty , and be appoint Elon Musk .
[ h / t Motherboard ]
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